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Drudge ReportJul 17, 2026
Trump Election Speech Ignites Wave of Backlash...




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Drudge ReportJul 17, 2026
ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violence...




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BBC PoliticsJul 17, 2026
Burnham says he is 'finalising' cabinet ahead of becoming PM on Monday
The new Labour leader says his government will deliver the biggest change in British politics for 40 years.

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Washington Post PoliticsJul 17, 2026
Maine Democratic Senate hopefuls back once fringe position after ICE shooting
The leading candidates to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic nominee to challenge Sen. Susan Collins are presenting themselves as fighters in his mold and calling for ICE to be abolished.

New York Times PoliticsJul 17, 2026
Republicans in North Carolina Try to Reduce Early Voting on Sundays and on Campuses
Voting-rights activists said the changes are a blatant attempt by G.O.P. leaders to make it harder for Black voters and students, who tend to vote for Democrats, to cast ballots this fall.

Drudge ReportJul 17, 2026
USA strikes bridges and collapses tower as Iran campaign expands...




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BBC PoliticsJul 17, 2026
Chris Mason: The Labour Party is smiling again
Burnham was confirmed as the new Labour leader.

Drudge ReportJul 17, 2026
IMPEACHMENT WATCH: WHITE HOUSE INSTRUCTS IRS TO AUDIT ENEMIES...




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BBC PoliticsJul 17, 2026
Andy Burnham is Labour leader: What is he promising?
The BBC's chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman explains what Andy Burnham intends to do as the new leader of the Labour party.

Democracy NowJul 17, 2026
Trump's Election Integrity Speech Lays Groundwork for Midterm Interference: Ari Berman
In a primetime address on Thursday, President Trump accused China of meddling in U.S. elections in his latest effort to spread doubt about the U.S. voting system ahead of the midterm elections in November. Trump announced he was declassifying documents that show what he called "shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure," but offered no evidence that China or any other country directly interfered with recent elections.

"If Trump was trying to build … a smoking gun case that the 2020 election was stolen, he failed miserably," says Ari Berman, the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones. "I am still very concerned that this speech is intended to lay the groundwork for the administration to interfere in the midterms."

Berman argues that U.S. elections are "secure" and that results are "audited extensively at the state level" and reviewed at the federal level. He says the 2020 election, which Trump lost to Joe Biden, was "found to be the most secure in American history."


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BBC PoliticsJul 17, 2026
Moment Andy Burnham's declared new Labour leader
The Makerfield MP is confirmed as party leader at a special conference in central London, before he becomes PM.

Drudge ReportJul 17, 2026
Iran demands 'blood for blood' in mural showing Trump family in coffins...




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New York Times PoliticsJul 17, 2026
Pentagon's Escort Policy for Journalists Is Temporarily Restored
An appeals court said the Defense Department could require escorts for reporters who visit the Pentagon while The New York Times sues to overturn the rule.

New York Times PoliticsJul 17, 2026
Judges Ask Congress for Power to Fix Crumbling Courthouses
Undrinkable water. Leaks. Mold. Federal courthouses need billions of dollars in repairs, and judges say the General Services Administration is a bad landlord.

Democracy NowJul 17, 2026
Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" Faces Boycott Calls over Filming in Occupied Western Sahara
Hollywood's blockbuster adaptation of the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey premieres around the world today amid growing calls for a boycott. Human rights campaigners are criticizing director Christopher Nolan over his decision to film part of the film in Western Sahara, a vast territory in northwestern Africa that Morocco has occupied for the past half-century.

"This occupying force is practicing cultural genocide against the Sahrawi people, ethnic cleansing," says María Carrión, the executive director of the Western Sahara International Film Festival. "By staying silent for one year and then using this footage, Nolan has basically become an accomplice to Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara."

Abidin Mohamed Hamudi, a Sahrawi filmmaker speaking to Democracy Now! from Algeria, says he cannot return to his home in Western Sahara, but Nolan "can just go there and film and be complicit in the occupation of my homeland." He calls it "a metaphor of how the Western world uses human rights, democracy narratives whenever they want, and then ignore it in other parts of the world."


Democracy NowJul 17, 2026
"Disrupt, Identify, Defund, Debank, Arrest & Prosecute": Trump Admin Threatens Leftist Groups
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and top White House adviser Stephen Miller are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations. The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit "on the resurgence of political terrorism," where Miller described the left as "enemies of civilization" and described efforts to "disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country." Rubio announced the U.S. would soon designate more left-wing groups as terrorist organizations. Also on Thursday, the State Department announced new visa restrictions targeting what it calls "members of Far-Left Terrorist and other aligned groups."

"They're putting political groups in the United States and abroad on the same footing as groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS," says independent journalist Ken Klippenstein, who has been closely following the Trump administration's designation of left-wing activism as terrorism.

"This effort to designate left-wing groups as foreign terrorists using these broad terms like 'antifa' will allow them to go after people who are not committing violence but who are simply engaging in the political process," adds former FBI special agent Mike German.


Democracy NowJul 17, 2026
Denise Oliver-Vélez, Pioneering Young Lord & Black Panther, Dies at 78
Lifelong activist, organizer and educator Denise Oliver-Vélez has died at the age of 78. She was a central figure in the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s and was the first woman elected to the Young Lords Central Committee, a radical Puerto Rican human rights group modeled on the Black Panther Party, which Oliver-Vélez was also a member of. She later became the first Black female program director in public radio and taught at SUNY New Paltz.

As a founding member of the Young Lords, Democracy Now!'s Juan González worked alongside Oliver-Vélez. "She helped develop many of [the Young Lords'] Serve the People programs and helped to shape and write some of the key literature we produced back then," says González, adding that "Denise was never afraid to speak her mind, to challenge authority and to tell her comrades what they needed to hear — not what they wanted to hear — and she always did it with love and kindness."


Yahoo PoliticsJul 17, 2026
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Washington Post PoliticsJul 16, 2026
These battleground Senate candidates raised the most money
Democratic candidates are raising more money than Republicans in key Senate races, and Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff (D) has the most money at his disposal at $42 million.

New York Times PoliticsJul 16, 2026
Trump Revisited Election Fraud Claims in Speech: What to Know.
Repeated investigations and audits have debunked claims by the president and his allies of widespread fraud or manipulation in 2020 or other elections.

Drudge ReportJul 16, 2026
Israel weighs scenarios for joining war...




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Washington Post PoliticsJul 16, 2026
White House teleprompter operator placed on leave after betting on Trump speeches
A White House teleprompter operator has been placed on unpaid leave after his online prediction market activity, which showed he was placing wagers related to President Donald Trump's public remarks, was flagged to federal regulators.

New York Times PoliticsJul 16, 2026
Democratic Senate Candidates Trounce Republicans in Fund-Raising
In the first half of this year, Democrats raised more cash in every key Senate race except Iowa.

Politics - U.S. HouseJul 16, 2026
Ken Paxton and James Talarico Agree to Debate in U.S. Senate Race
Ken Paxton, a Republican, has not debated in more than a decade. A showdown with James Talarico, a Democrat, could be a key moment in the hard-fought race.

Drudge ReportJul 16, 2026
Paxton Expands Real Estate Portfolio Amid Senate Run and Divorce...




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Politics - U.S. HouseJul 16, 2026
Can a Pro-Israel Democrat Still Win a Big Primary? She's Going to Try.
To prevail in Michigan's crucial Senate primary, Representative Haley Stevens will need to overcome Democratic voters' skepticism of Israel. Pro-Israel groups are spending heavily to help her.

Yahoo PoliticsJul 16, 2026
US appeals court keeps in place Pentagon's escort policy for journalists


New York Times PoliticsJul 16, 2026
Trump Released Documents on China and the 2020 Election. Here's What We Know.
President Trump claimed that China had tried to acquire American voter data. Possessing such information would not allow votes to be manipulated.

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New York Times PoliticsJul 16, 2026
Multiple Investigations Refuted Trump's Claims That Fraud Altered the Outcome in 2020
Dozens of investigations, audits, recounts and court proceedings examined the 2020 election. None found the widespread voter fraud that President Trump claimed tilted the vote.

Democracy NowJul 16, 2026
Victor Salgado Araujo Saw ICE Agent Kill His Brother in Texas. He Is Now Detained, Faces Deportation
After ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas, last week, they quickly arrested three witnesses: the other men that the 52-year-old father of three was driving to work. The three men, including Salgado Araujo's younger brother Victor, are now being detained by ICE and threatened with deportation.

"There is a Trump militia roaming our streets, our towns, our cities, killing people regardless of immigration status with absolutely no accountability. … They are either not getting training or getting training to shoot directly at people, to murder people, in the streets," says Congressmember Pramila Jayapal, explaining that the three incarcerated witnesses must be protected from deportation for at least as long as they can provide information for the investigations on Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's killing. Victor Salgado Araujo "wants to be accessible as a witness, and it's really hard for him to do that when he's [being detained] 45 minutes away from Houston," says his attorney Ruby Powers. "Being able to be in the United States freely, to be able to give that testimony is what we're asking for."


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